"Translations from the French by Jeanie P. Fleming"--Title page verso
The human puzzle of Eastern Europe -- A land of many aspects -- The distribution of peoples -- The birth of nation states, 10th-13th centuries -- The age of ruptures, 14th-16th centuries -- Eastern Europe of the Habsburgs, the Turks and Russia -- Premonitory signs of nationalism -- 1848--the springtime of nations : success and failure in revolution -- The search for new structures -- The Austro-Hungarian experiment, 1867-1918 -- The wakening of the Polish nation, 1870-1914 -- The Balkans between the Great Powers, 1878-1914 -- Epilogue: The First World War -- Political changes in Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War -- Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the war -- Political struggle and internal strife, 1919-1939 -- Interwar economics : an impossible balance -- International relations between the wars -- National minorities : a source of international tension -- From Munich to Yalta, 1938-1945 -- A warning -- The new status of Eastern Europe -- The birth of popular democracies -- The age of Stalin, 1948-1953 -- Eastern Europe during destalinization, 1953-1968 -- From The Prague Spring to Solidarity, 1968-1981 -- The age of Gorbachev -- Conclusion
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